"I think when he's ready, he'll be ready to go," Garrett said. "You want to have good, quality practice work for him before he plays in a game, but he's played a lot of football. He's a smart guy. We have a lot of different thresholds for him, but he's a guy that you could say he hasn't practiced as much as everybody else but can still play in the ballgame. ...

"We'll see how he responds to that work, and we'll do some more with him today," Garrett said. "Obviously we want to progress him to practice and playing as quickly as we can. At the same time, we need to be smart with his injury."